Software to manage media collection?

I would say Discogs if you're happy to keep it online, you can just scan in bar codes. The only problem is working out which release you actually have out of the multitude it sometimes comes up with. The other advantage is it will value your collection as well - that's how I found out my Flower Kings box set was my most valuable CD.

I've been using Rate Your Music (https://rateyourmusic.com/). Like Discogs, you need to narrow it down to the specific issue you own. Because this is a shared online database, adding a new issue or album isn't too hard, but there are a lot of rules you have follow (including complicated capitalization and formatting rules for adding track names). Editing existing entries or adding/editing bands is a time-consuming effort because these need to be approved by an admin. RYM seems like it was designed by "catalogers" for "catalogers," not unlike library land where I'm all too familiar with lengthy, complicated, and sometimes cumbersome standards (it's part of my real life job) -- thus I'm naturally attracted to this site being a database nerd of sorts.

Edited by progaardvark - April 11 2022 at 07:37